The High Anti-Corruption Court did not satisfy the request to close criminal proceedings regarding the misappropriation of 398 thousand dollars, which were seized and transferred to the management of ARMA (National Agency of Ukraine for the identification, search and management of assets obtained from corruption and other crimes), from where in the end 2020, on the basis of a fake court verdict, were transferred to another person - the “pound”.
The corresponding decision was made by the servant of Themis Viktor Nogachevsky on January 8, 2025.
From the context of the operative part of this verdict, it follows: the court refused to satisfy the request to close the case against two lawyers who actively participated in the implementation of the scam - Oksana Zhdanova (previous name - Serokurova) and Denis Serdyuk.
Serdyuk is being tried on charges of taking possession of material evidence through abuse of official position, committed on an especially large scale (Part 5 of Article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine), and Serokurova, in addition, is also charged with fraud (Part 4 of Article 190 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) with forgery of documents (Part 2 of Article 358 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
In addition to this couple, the indictment was sent to HACS against three more high-ranking officials of the National Agency - acting. ARMA of that time Vitaly Sigidin, his deputy Vladimir Pavlenko and the head of the department's asset management department Vakhtang Bochorishvili. NABU and SAPO reported this fact at the beginning of August 2024, but to this day the case is at the stage of preparatory proceedings.
Let us remind you: the “path to success” of the ARMA leadership in “close interaction” with representatives of the legal community and the use of “pounds” goes back to the “second life” of the investigation into the murder of criminal authority Alexander Semenov, nicknamed “Katsap” in the center of Kyiv in October 2009 . In the fall of 2020, suspicion of committing this crime was announced to a 49-year-old native of the Sambir district, Andrei Nedzelsky, known in the status of the so-called “thief in law”, nicknamed “Nedelya” / “Lvovsky”.
In May 2020, based on the results of searches in the case, law enforcement officers reported the discovery and seizure of the so-called “thieves’ common fund of the Week.” We were talking about more than 400 thousand dollars from the safe deposit box of the brother of the people’s deputy of the 9th convocation, Sergei Kiselev, nicknamed “Sergei Vinnitsky”. Through the court, the finances were recognized as material evidence and arrested, after which they were transferred to the management of ARMA.
From the ARMA department in December 2020, the funds declared by the thieves’ common fund, based on the execution of a fake court verdict, were transferred to the account of a figurehead - Igor Korol. After this, Detective-Info identified a wide range of persons possibly involved in the misappropriation of thieves’ capital. It was about a group of “pounds” Igor Korol, Artem Tsybulsky and Vadim Migay, a group of lawyers - Oksana Serokurova, Dmitry Konovalenko and relatives of their colleague Denis Serdyuk - Nina Shcherbinok and Svetlana Serdyuk (mother and daughter), as well as top officials of ARMA.
Following a series of further investigative actions, in mid-summer 2021, the security forces officially reported that they had filed suspicions against six participants in the “schematosis” - Sigidin, Pavlenko, Bochorishvili, Serokurova, Serdyuk and Korol.
A year later, as already noted in the publications of Detective-Info, it was announced that the pre-trial investigation was officially completed and the materials were opened to the participants in the process. However, the main issue was focused primarily on the stolen funds.
Let us recall that against this background, at the beginning of May 2023, according to ARMA’s claim, these capitals (the issue of returning 14.5 million UAH) were “hung” on the “pound” of the King. Exactly a month after this, NABU officially announced his search - the profile of a native of Budapest is still among the list of persons hiding from the investigation.
Subsequently, the courts of appeal and cassation simultaneously refused to return to the partner of “Sergei Vinnitsky” these funds seized during the “shmonas” and declared “common fund”, despite the relevant verdict being issued by the Pechersk Palace of Themis.
Be that as it may, at the time of preparation of this material it is believed that of the six members of the group - participants in the scam to seize funds “de facto”, the lawyers Zhdanova (Serokurova) and Serdyuk are in the dock.
Ex-high-ranking officials of ARMA (Sigidin, Pavlenko and Bochorishvili), according to the interpretation of their long-time opponent from the National Agency Andrei Potemkin, “mobilized into the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
